{"id":1521,"date":"2024-11-26T18:54:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T18:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2024-11-26T18:54:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T18:54:21","slug":"knights-struggle-in-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=1521","title":{"rendered":"Knights struggle in season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Kelseyville varsity boys drop 67-44 decision to Terra Nova of Pacifica<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PACIFICA >> The Knights played better in the second half than the first, but it was still a tough season opener for the Kelseyville High School varsity boys basketball team, a 67-44 loser on Monday night against Terra Nova High School in Pacifica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe were just sloppy, not ready to play,\u201d Kelseyville head coach Oscar Lopez said of his team\u2019s first effort of the 2024-25 season. \u201cThat\u2019s on me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Offense and defense struggled alike, according to Lopez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToo many turnovers,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd our defense wasn\u2019t up to it, lots of miscommunication. Our offense hasn\u2019t found its rhythm yet. We were forcing things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelseyville found itself in a 29-15 hole by halftime. While the Knights\u2019 offense began to pick it up in the second half, the defense allowed another 38 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slow starts aren\u2019t that unusual for the Knights, who opened 1-3 last season, 2-4 in 2022-23 and 0-3 in 2021-22. Kelseyville (0-1) tends to schedule up in the preseason while preparing for the North Central League I race. The Knights shared the league title with St. Helena last season and came in second in 2022-23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelseyville returns a senior-dominated roster from a 20-10 team last season (11 of the team\u2019s 12 players are seniors).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been the team with the chip on our shoulder the last couple of seasons,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cNow it\u2019s a matter if we can be mentally hungry enough not that most of them are seniors. We\u2019re the team everyone is gunning for now. How well can we play with a target on our backs?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brock Barrick\u2019s 14 points, including four 3-pointers, led the Knights. Ryder Leary added 11 points, three-year varsity veteran Kyle Watkins added nine and Gene Holdenried had five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Terra Nova (1-0) competes in the Central Coast Section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelseyville returns to action next Monday in McKinleyville, part of a four-game set between the two schools. The junior varsity girls game tips off at 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Terra Nova beat Kelseyville in the JV boys game (score not reported).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelseyville varsity boys drop 67-44 decision to Terra Nova of Pacifica Lake County Sports on Facebook PACIFICA >> The Knights played better in the second half than the first, but it was still a tough season opener for the Kelseyville High School varsity boys basketball team, a 67-44 loser on Monday night against Terra Nova [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}